[es]to hará o esto acontecerá, o será estimado, será ensalzado, vivirá sobre la tierra. Por ventura por nuestros deméritos será vil y pobre y despreciado sobre la tierra. Por ventura será ladrón o adúltero, o vivirá vida trabajosa o fatigosa. Nosotros haremos lo que es nuestro, que es criarle y doctrinarle como padres y madres. No podremos, por cierto, entrar dentro dél y ponerle nuestro corazón. Tampoco vosotros podréis hacer esto, aunque sois padres. Lo que resta es que no os descuidéis en encomendarle a Dios con oraciones y lágrimas para que nos declare su voluntad."
\nor that will be done or this will happen: if he will be esteemed or acclaimed, if he will live on this earth. Perhaps, due to our unworthiness, he will be vile and poor and despised on this earth. Perhaps he will become a thief or an adulterer, or he will live a life of toil and tribulation. We will do what pertains to us, which is to raise him and instruct him as if we were his father and mother. Certainly we will not be able to get inside of him and place our own hearts in him. Not even you can do this, even though you are his parents. There only remains for you not to forget to commend him with your prayers and your tears to god, so that he may reveal his will to us.”
\n[que]nami tiquitozque, cujx tamechtoiollalilizque, a cujx toconitozque iuhquj iez, y, iehoatl iez, y, iehoatl qujchioaz, y, iehoatl quicuepaz, y, in totecujo. iuhquj iez. y, hitlatiz, panvetziz, nemiz in tlalticpac.
\nauh acaço tle tolhujl tomaceoal, aco teuhtli, tlaçolli, ic milacatzotinemiz in tlalticpac, aço tecomjc, tecaxic maiaviz, at tecue, tevipil tepan canaz quimaviltiz, auh anoço icnoiotl teupouhqui, cococ qujtztinemjz,
\nma titlacazcaltia, ma titlacaoapaoa ma quiça in cententli, in cencamatl yn naniotl, in taiotl. Cujx ijtic toncalaquizque, toiollo tocontlalilizque: auh no yui in ticozque, in tiquetzale.
\nauh in axca manoçoc ic xonmoietztie in tlatlauhtli, in choquiztli, in ixaiotl ma amonmotlacochcaviliti, ma oc xocõmotlaoculnonochilitinencã in tloque naoaque, quen techmonequililia, quen quimitalhuja.
\nhow will we speak? Shall we perchance console you? Shall we perchance say: ‘So it will be; this will be; this will he do; this will our lord change; so will he be; he will be something; he will attain honor; he will live on earth’?
\n“But perhaps it is our desert, our merit that he will live plunged in vice and filth1 on earth. Perchance he will take things from others’ pots, others’ vessels; perhaps he will take someone else’s woman; he will have a gay time. And perchance he will experience misery, misfortune.
\n“Let us instruct children; let us educate children. Let the word, the statement, motherhood, fatherhood come forth. Shall we perchance enclose it within him? Shall we be reassured? And likewise you who have the jewel, you who have the precious feather?
\n“And now may you bring about entreaties, weeping, tears. Do not abandon sorrow;2 yet live calling out for compassion to the lord of the near, of the nigh, as to what he requireth of you, what he sayeth.”
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